I'm new to scala, spark, and I have a problem while trying to learn from some toy dataframes.
I have a dataframe having the following two columns:
Name_Description Grade
Name_Description is an array, and Grade is just a letter. It's Name_Description that I'm having a problem with. I'm trying to change this column when using scala on Spark.
Name description is not an array that's of fixed size. It could be something like
['asdf_ Brandon', 'Ca%abc%rd']
['fthhhhChris', 'Rock', 'is the %abc%man']
The only problems are the following:
1. the first element of the array ALWAYS has 6 garbage characters, so the real meaning starts at 7th character.
2. %abc% randomly pops up on elements, so I wanna erase them.
Is there any way to achieve those two things in Scala? For instance, I just want
['asdf_ Brandon', 'Ca%abc%rd'], ['fthhhhChris', 'Rock', 'is the %abc%man']
to change to
['Brandon', 'Card'], ['Chris', 'Rock', 'is the man']
What you're trying to do might be hard to achieve using standard spark functions, but you could define UDF for that:
val removeGarbage = udf { arr: WrappedArray[String] =>
//in case that array is empty we need to map over option
arr.headOption
//drop first 6 characters from first element, then remove %abc% from the rest
.map(head => head.drop(6) +: arr.tail.map(_.replace("%abc%","")))
.getOrElse(arr)
}
Then you just need to use this UDF on your Name_Description column:
val df = List(
(1, Array("asdf_ Brandon", "Ca%abc%rd")),
(2, Array("fthhhhChris", "Rock", "is the %abc%man"))
).toDF("Grade", "Name_Description")
df.withColumn("Name_Description", removeGarbage($"Name_Description")).show(false)
Show prints:
+-----+-------------------------+
|Grade|Name_Description |
+-----+-------------------------+
|1 |[Brandon, Card] |
|2 |[Chris, Rock, is the man]|
+-----+-------------------------+
We are always encouraged to use spark sql functions and avoid using the UDFs as long as we can. I have a simplified solution for this which makes use of the spark sql functions.
Please find below my approach. Hope it helps.
val d = Array((1,Array("asdf_ Brandon","Ca%abc%rd")),(2,Array("fthhhhChris", "Rock", "is the %abc%man")))
val df = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(d).toDF("Grade","Name_Description")
This is how I created the input dataframe.
df.select('Grade,posexplode('Name_Description)).registerTempTable("data")
We explode the array along with the position of each element in the array. I register the dataframe in order to use a query to generate the required output.
spark.sql("""select Grade, collect_list(Names) from (select Grade,case when pos=0 then substring(col,7) else replace(col,"%abc%","") end as Names from data) a group by Grade""").show
This query will give out the required output. Hope this helps.
Related
I have a dataframe with column having values like "COR//xxxxxx-xx-xxxx" or "xxxxxx-xx-xxxx"
I need to compare this column with another column in a different dataframe based on the column value.
If column value have "COR//xxxxx-xx-xxxx", I need to use substring("column", 4, length($"column")
If the column value have "xxxxx-xx-xxxx", I can compare directly without using substring.
For example:
val DF1 = DF2.join(DF3, upper(trim($"column1".substr(4, length($"column1")))) === upper(trim(DF3("column1"))))
I am not sure how to add the condition while joining. Could anyone please let me know how can we achieve this in Spark dataframe?
You can try adding a new column based on the conditions and join on the new column. Something like this.
val data = List("COR//xxxxx-xx-xxxx", "xxxxx-xx-xxxx")
val DF2 = ps.sparkSession.sparkContext.parallelize(data).toDF("column1")
val DF4 = DF2.withColumn("joinCol", when(col("column1").like("%COR%"),
expr("substring(column1, 6, length(column1)-1)")).otherwise(col("column1")) )
DF4.show(false)
The new column will have values like this.
+------------------+-------------+
|column1 |joinCol |
+------------------+-------------+
|COR//xxxxx-xx-xxxx|xxxxx-xx-xxxx|
|xxxxx-xx-xxxx |xxxxx-xx-xxxx|
+------------------+-------------+
You can now join based on the new column added.
val DF1 = DF4.join(DF3, upper(trim(DF4("joinCol"))) === upper(trim(DF3("column1"))))
Hope this helps.
Simply create a new column to use in the join:
DF2.withColumn("column2",
when($"column1" rlike "COR//.*",
$"column1".substr(lit(4), length($"column1")).
otherwise($"column1"))
Then use column2 in the join. It is also possible to add the whole when clause directly in the join but it would look very messy.
Note that to use a constant value in substr you need to use lit. And if you want to remove the whole "COR//" part, use 6 instead of 4.
I have a dataframe (contains 10 columns) for which I want to change the value of a row (for the last column only). I have written following code for this:
val newDF = spark.sqlContext.createDataFrame(WRADF.rdd.map(r=> {
Row(r.get(0), r.get(1),
r.get(2), r.get(3),
r.get(4), r.get(5),
r.get(6), r.get(7),
r.get(8), decrementCounter(r))
}), WRADF.schema)
I want to change the value of a row for 10th column only (for which I wrote decrementCounter() function). But the above code only runs for dataframes with 10 columns. I don't know how to convert this code so that it can run for different dataframe (with different number of columns). Any help will be appreciated.
Don't do something like this. Define udf
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.udf._
val decrementCounter = udf((x: T) => ...) // adjust types and content to your requirements
df.withColumn("someName", decrementCounter($"someColumn"))
I think UDF will be a better choice because it can be applied using the Column name itself.
For more on udf you can take a look here : https://docs.databricks.com/spark/latest/spark-sql/udf-scala.html
For your code just use this :
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.udf._
val decrementCounterUDF = udf(decrementCounter _)
df.withColumn("columnName", decrementCounterUDF($"columnName"))
What it will does is apply this decrementCounter function on each and every value of column columnName.
I hope this helps, cheers !
Currently I have an input file(millions of records) where all the records contain a 2 character Identifier. Multiple lines in this input file will be concatenated into only one record in the output file, and how this is determined is SOLELY based on the sequential order of the Identifier
For example, the records would begin as below
1A
1B
1C
2A
2B
2C
1A
1C
2B
2C
1A
1B
1C
1A marks the beginning of a new record, so the output file would have 3 records in this case. Everything between the "1A"s will be combined into one record
1A+1B+1C+2A+2B+2C
1A+1C+2B+2C
1A+1B+1C
The number of records between the "1A"s varies, so I have to iterate through and check the Identifier.
I am unsure how to approach this situation using scala/spark.
My strategy is to:
Load the Input file into the dataframe.
Create an Identifier column based on substring of record.
Create a new column, TempID and a variable, x that is set to 0
Iterate through the dataframe
if Identifier =1A, x = x+1
TempID= variable x
Then create a UDF to concat records with the same TempID.
To summarize my question:
How would I iterate through the dataframe, check the value of Identifier column, then assign a tempID(whose value increases by 1 if the value of identifier column is 1A)
This is dangerous. The issue is that spark is not guaranteed keep the same order among elements, especially since they might cross partition boundaries. So when you iterate over them you could get a different order back. This also has to happen entirely sequentially, so at that point why not just skip spark entirely and run it as regular scala code as a preproccessing step before getting to spark.
My recommendation would be to either look into writing a custom data inputformat/data source, or perhaps you could use "1A" as a record delimiter similar to this question.
First - usually "iterating" over a DataFrame (or Spark's other distributed collection abstractions like RDD and Dataset) is either wrong or impossible. The term simply does not apply. You should transform these collections using Spark's functions instead of trying to iterate over them.
You can achieve your goal (or - almost, details to follow) using Window Functions. The idea here would be to (1) add an "id" column to sort by, (2) use a Window function (based on that ordering) to count the number of previous instances of "1A", and then (3) using these "counts" as the "group id" that ties all records of each group together, and group by it:
import functions._
import spark.implicits._
// sample data:
val df = Seq("1A", "1B", "1C", "2A", "2B", "2C", "1A", "1C", "2B", "2C", "1A", "1B", "1C").toDF("val")
val result = df.withColumn("id", monotonically_increasing_id()) // add row ID
.withColumn("isDelimiter", when($"val" === "1A", 1).otherwise(0)) // add group "delimiter" indicator
.withColumn("groupId", sum("isDelimiter").over(Window.orderBy($"id"))) // add groupId using Window function
.groupBy($"groupId").agg(collect_list($"val") as "list") // NOTE: order of list might not be guaranteed!
.orderBy($"groupId").drop("groupId") // removing groupId
result.show(false)
// +------------------------+
// |list |
// +------------------------+
// |[1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C]|
// |[1A, 1C, 2B, 2C] |
// |[1A, 1B, 1C] |
// +------------------------+
(if having the result as a list does not fit your needs, I'll leave it to you to transform this column to whatever you need)
The major caveat here is that collect_list does not necessarily guarantee preserving order - once you use groupBy, the order is potentially lost. So - the order within each resulting list might be wrong (the separation to groups, however, is necessarily correct). If that's important to you, it can be worked around by collecting a list of a column that also contains the "id" column and using it later to sort these lists.
EDIT: realizing this answer isn't complete without solving this caveat, and realizing it's not trivial - here's how you can solve it:
Define the following UDF:
val getSortedValues = udf { (input: mutable.Seq[Row]) => input
.map { case Row (id: Long, v: String) => (id, v) }
.sortBy(_._1)
.map(_._2)
}
Then, replace the row .groupBy($"groupId").agg(collect_list($"val") as "list") in the suggested solution above with these rows:
.groupBy($"groupId")
.agg(collect_list(struct($"id" as "_1", $"val" as "_2")) as "list")
.withColumn("list", getSortedValues($"list"))
This way we necessarily preserve the order (with the price of sorting these small lists).
Attempting to remove rows in which a Spark dataframe column contains blank strings. Originally did val df2 = df1.na.drop() but it turns out many of these values are being encoded as "".
I'm stuck using Spark 1.3.1 and also cannot rely on DSL. (Importing spark.implicit_ isn't working.)
Removing things from a dataframe requires filter().
newDF = oldDF.filter("colName != ''")
or am I misunderstanding your question?
In case someone dont want to drop the records with blank strings, but just convvert the blank strings to some constant value.
val newdf = df.na.replace(df.columns,Map("" -> "0")) // to convert blank strings to zero
newdf.show()
You can use this:
df.filter(!($"col_name"===""))
It filters out the columns where the value of "col_name" is "" i.e. nothing/blankstring. I'm using the match filter and then inverting it by "!"
I am also new to spark So I don't know if below mentioned code is more complex or not but it works.
Here we are creating udf which is converting blank values to null.
sqlContext.udf().register("convertToNull",(String abc) -> (abc.trim().length() > 0 ? abc : null),DataTypes.StringType);
After above code you can use "convertToNull" (works on string) in select clause and make all fields null which are blank and than use .na().drop().
crimeDataFrame.selectExpr("C0","convertToNull(C1)","C2","C3").na().drop()
Note : You can use same approach in scala.
https://jaceklaskowski.gitbooks.io/mastering-apache-spark/content/spark-sql-udfs.html
I am new to Spark. I have two tables in HDFS. One table(table 1) is a tag table,composed of some text, which could be some words or a sentence. Another table(table 2) has a text column. Every row could have more than one keyword in the table 1. my task is find out all the matched keywords in table 1 for the text column in table 2, and output the keyword list for every row in table 2.
The problem is I have to iterate every row in table 2 and table 1. If I produce a big list for table 1, and use a map function for table 2. I will still have to use a loop to iterate the list in the map function. And the driver shows the JVM memory limit error,even if the loop is not large(10 thousands time).
myTag is the tag list of table 1.
def ourMap(line: String, myTag: List[String]): String = {
var ret = line
val length = myTag.length
for (i <- 0 to length - 1) {
if (line.contains(myTag(i)))
ret = ret.replaceAll(myTag(i), "_")
}
ret
}
val matched = result.map(b => ourMap(b, tagList))
Any suggestion to finish this task? With or without Spark
Many thanks!
An example is as follows:
table1
row1|Spark
row2|RDD
table2
row1| Spark is a fast and general engine. RDD supports two types of operations.
row2| All transformations in Spark are lazy.
row3| It is for test. I am a sentence.
Expected result :
row1| Spark,RDD
row2| Spark
MAJOR EDIT:
The first table actually may contain sentences and not just simple keywords :
row1| Spark
row2| RDD
row3| two words
row4| I am a sentence
Here you go, considering the data sample that you have provided :
val table1: Seq[(String, String)] = Seq(("row1", "Spark"), ("row2", "RDD"), ("row3", "Hashmap"))
val table2: Seq[String] = Seq("row1##Spark is a fast and general engine. RDD supports two types of operations.", "row2##All transformations in Spark are lazy.")
val rdd1: RDD[(String, String)] = sc.parallelize(table1)
val rdd2: RDD[(String, String)] = sc.parallelize(table2).map(_.split("##").toList).map(l => (l.head, l.tail(0))).cache
We'll build an inverted index of the second data table which we will join to the first table :
val df1: DataFrame = rdd1.toDF("key", "value")
val df2: DataFrame = rdd2.toDF("key", "text")
val df3: DataFrame = rdd2.flatMap { case (row, text) => text.trim.split( """[^\p{IsAlphabetic}]+""")
.map(word => (word, row))
}.groupByKey.mapValues(_.toSet.toSeq).toDF("word", "index")
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.explode
val results: RDD[(String, String)] = df3.join(df1, df1("value") === df3("word")).drop("key").drop("value").withColumn("index", explode($"index")).rdd.map {
case r: Row => (r.getAs[String]("index"), r.getAs[String]("word"))
}.groupByKey.mapValues(i => i.toList.mkString(","))
results.take(2).foreach(println)
// (row1,Spark,RDD)
// (row2,Spark)
MAJOR EDIT:
As mentioned in the comment : The specifications of the issue changed. Keywords are no longer simple keywords, they might be sentences. In that case, this approach wouldn't work, it's a different kind of problem. One way to do it is using Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithm for nearest neighbor search.
An implementation of this algorithm is available here.
The algorithm and its implementation are unfortunately too long to discuss on SO.
From what I could gather from your problem statement is that you are kind of trying to tag the data in Table 2 with the keywords which are present in Table 1. For this, instead of loading the Table1 as a list and then doing each keyword pattern matching for each row in Table2, do this :
Load Table1 as a hashSet.
Traverse the Table2 and for each word in that phrase, do a search in the above hashset. I assume the words that you shall have to search from here are less as compared to pattern matching for each keyword. Remember, search now is O(1) operation whereas pattern matching is not.
Also, in this process, you can also filter words like " is, are, when, if " etc as they shall never be used for tagging. So that reduces words you need to find in hashSet.
The hashSet can be loaded into memory(I think 10K keywords should not take more than few MBs). This variable can be shared across executors through broadcast variables.